Corporate AI investment

National Grid’s legal team has adopted legal AI tools, including Harvey, to handle a surge in work and improve how lawyers share information, work across teams, and identify risks. The team is also pushing law firms to collaborate on technology use.

Ilunion’s legal team extended use of generative AI to streamline routine tasks and developed custom AI agents for case analysis and contract generation. The effort has reduced time spent on some repetitive work by 30 per cent.

Fieldfisher is expanding its internal AI capability by appointing a Director of AI and establishing a new team at Fieldfisher X in Berlin to execute the firm’s global AI strategy. The hub is intended to be the central point for AI innovation across the firm’s international network.

Stanford Law School announced the launch of liftlab, a legal AI initiative to explore how artificial intelligence can reshape legal services and improve access to justice. The lab is meant to unite research, prototyping, and collaboration with industry to build tools for legal work.

Wolters Kluwer launched an agentic tool designed to automate outside-counsel billing comparisons and guideline checks for legal workflows.

Vorys said it will serve as a founding advisory firm for Stanford Law School’s liftlab, collaborating on new research, AI tools, pricing models, and training/career-development tools. The firm also says it is developing and testing a range of AI-supported software internally and launched AIV Labor this year.

Cleary Gottlieb is partnering with Stanford Law School’s Frontier Technology Lab (liftlab) as a Founding Advisor to advance AI and other cutting-edge technologies in legal services. The firm says the partnership will support training and development of its people and help lawyers use AI responsibly in client service.

Goodwin announced the successful firmwide roll out of Legora as part of a design partnership. The firm said the deployment reflects its commitment to innovation, client service, and operational excellence.

Allens announced two major investments in legal AI platforms, including Legora, to support tailored AI solutions through its Innovation & Digital Solutions practice and improve client collaboration and efficiency.

Allens also announced an investment in Thomson Reuters CoCounsel, a legal AI assistant, to accelerate everyday legal work such as reviewing contracts, summarising agreements and conducting legal research.

Finnegan launched a dedicated Artificial Intelligence practice called AI + Finnegan. The firm says it formalized this offering to deliver coordinated AI counsel using its own engineers, scientists, attorneys, and legal professionals.

The firm is regularly using at least 15 AI tools for administrative and legal tasks, and its managing member says the subscription costs are justified by the efficiencies they create. It is actively experimenting with new tools and using AI across both legal and nonlegal work.

The firm is evaluating several generative AI tools that can be customized to its needs, and its attorneys and staff are already using five to 10 commercially available and customized tools. It is trying to balance innovation with responsibility as it deploys tools that protect client and firm information.

The firm has incorporated AI into its practice to work faster and cheaper and to create higher-quality work products. Its founder says he and a colleague have integrated AI into the practice and are teaching law students about integrating AI into law.

Dentons is developing a proprietary AI tool built by lawyers for lawyers. The article frames it as an internal innovation effort tied to M&A use cases and cost implications.

Willkie is rolling out Harvey firmwide across 16 offices worldwide and integrating it into its proprietary AI platform, Wendell Intelligence. The firm says the deployment is intended to align advanced generative capabilities with internal knowledge systems and workflows to improve efficiency, productivity, and client service.

iManage says it has unveiled significant investments in AI innovation across its platform, including new AI capabilities natively within iManage Cloud. The company says these advances are meant to give knowledge professionals secure, traceable AI outputs grounded in their content.

Actionstep established a dedicated AI Center of Excellence and is building AI functionality into its platform for law firm management. It says the effort is aimed at helping midsize law firms adopt AI securely and improve operations, workflow, and service delivery.

Latham & Watkins signed an enterprise license for a firmwide rollout of Harvey’s generative AI platform, making it available globally to lawyers and related business professionals for research, document analysis, drafting, and other legal work. The firm says Harvey is part of its broader strategy of continued investment in generative AI and advanced technology.

Dentons announced a partnership with AI platform Legora to provide its European lawyers with collaborative AI tools for document review, drafting, and legal research. This initiative follows the firm's May 2025 launch of DAISY, an internally developed AI tool for general business purposes.